What’s happened in our school this week?

Our children have been involved in some Hellesdon Cluster events this week, with the Year 2 children taking part in cross country activities on Monday. Miss Thurston and Mrs Cooke took 13 children to the event at Hellesdon High School (HHS) to compete against other schools in our cluster. The children did a fantastic job pacing themselves and running a long distance around the high school field. We came in second place overall and one of our Year 2 girls, Megan Scrivens, came in at an amazing 3

rd place. Well done to all the children who attended this

event and a big thank you to Lisa Betts and Doreen Willimott who accompanied us for the afternoon.

The Year 6 children were treated to watching a production of Bugsy Malone, performed by the Performing Arts children at HHS. The play was full of music and singing as well as some very confident performances, some of which came from previous Horsford pupils. Our children enjoyed the play enormously and hopefully have been inspired ready for their leavers’ performance at the end of the year.

Forest School Spring Watch!

At our Forest School Holt Road site this week we have been looking for signs of spring. The children found lots of daffodils and were very lucky to spot some lady bugs that had come out of hibernation. We looked for some frog spawn in the pond but it isn’t quite warm enough yet! The children also enjoyed bird watching and found the Pied Wagtail’s wiggle highly amusing. We enjoyed having a game of lady bug and bumble bee tick tack toe that the children made last week, by cutting pieces of wood into circles. We are very busy creating a new path leading from the digging area to the mud kitchen, as it is very slippery. If anyone has any unwanted wood bark to help with this, it would be greatly appreciated. I wonder how many signs of spring you can spot with your grown up over the weekend? Looking forward to next week’s Forest School adventures! Weather permitting we will be having an Italian afternoon cooking pizza on the camp fire. By Rachael

Robin

Please can we remind parents of Year 6 children going on the Canterbury trip that final payments are due now.

Miss Anatola, Mrs Kirton, Miss Anderson

Attendance:

VHC Apples - 91.63 %

VHC Pears - 81.06 %

Elmer - 90.87 %

Kipper - 98.99%

Gruffalo - 92.96 %

Funnybones - 98.07%

3/4G - 88.57 %

3/4P - 97.53%

3/4F - 95.45%

5G - 98.84%

5L - 96.11%

6S - 92.15%

6B - 94.95%

Well done to:

Kipper

Celebrations

Each Monday, we hold our Awe and Wonder Celebration Worship, where certificates are awarded to one or two

children from each class for positive behaviour or exceptional effort.

This week’s certificate winners were:

Olivia Arnup, Harvey Brown, Ruby Wright, Asia Leggett, Raffaele Lesanu, Harrison Kemp, Poppi-Honey Wagstaff, Sonny

McKenzie, Sam Lacey, Cody Starling, Caitlin Dack, Daniel Heather, Joshua Quinton. McKenzie Morrison, William Barrett, Emilia Records, Tyrus Harper, Daisy Barnard, Zach Manley, Joseph Howes, Reggy King, Lucas Smith, Ryan Amies, Chardonnay Burrows, Brandon Baldry and Kylara Pope.

Horsford C of E VA Primary School

House Points: Last week:

Blickling - 517

Felbrigg - 512

Sandringham - 516

Holkham - 510

Running Total:

Blickling - 46

Felbrigg - 56

Sandringham - 46

Holkham - 44

Monday Cheese and tomato pizza Spanish omelette (v) Minted new potatoes Mixed salad and coleslaw Peaches with ice cream

Tuesday Beef Bolognese with pasta

twists and herby bread Sweet potato and lentil korma

with rice (v) Farmhouse mixed vegetables Toffee cream tart

Wednesday Roast chicken with stuffing and

gravy Homemade creamy vegetable

bake (v) Roast potatoes Carrots and broccoli Fruity Wednesday with yogurt

dip

Thursday Local pork sausages with

creamy mash Vegemince cottage pie (v) Baked beans Sponge pudding with sauce

Friday Fish fingers or salmon fingers Vegetarian sausages (v) Chips Garden peas or baked beans Very berry muffin

Clubs: Holt Road site (HR) Mill Lane site (ML)

Weekly Diary

NEBULA READING WEEK

Monday 14th March

All day: Storyteller visiting for YR and Y1

All day: Piano and keyboard lessons at Mill Lane

Tuesday 15th March

9-10am: Y3-6 parent reading event at Mill Lane. Morning: Keyboard and recorders lessons at Holt Road

1.30-3pm: Gruffalo - Story Café

Afternoon: Elmer - Forest Schools

Afternoon: Skillforce for selected Year 5 children

3.30pm: Y5 Boys’ football match HOME against Colman

Wednesday 16th March

9-10.30am: YR-2 parent reading event at Holt Road

Morning: Singing Club rehearsals at Epic Studios

Afternoon: Drum lessons for children at Mill Lane

Afternoon: Gruffalo - Forest Schools

7-8pm: CASMA Music Concert at Epic Studios (parents to take chn and stay and watch).

Thursday 17th March

8am: Coach leaves Mill Lane for Harry Potter Studios for Y5/6 Afternoon: Kipper - Forest Schools

7.15pm: Year 5/6 due home

Friday 18th March

NON UNIFORM DAY for Sport Relief - bring in spare change/coppers to fill jar. 10-1pm: Tag Rugby tournament for selected Y3-6 children

2.15-3.45pm: Easter Fayre at Mill Lane site (see letter sent out for details).

Homework

This year all children will complete a homework task which will be set on a Friday and handed in by the Friday

of the same week.

This week’s homework topic: Birthday message to

the queen

On April 21st, the queen becomes our oldest reigning monarch, when she reaches the age of 90. The EDP will be

commemorating the event with a series of souvenir supplements. They are inviting pupils across the region to send in their personalised message to be published alongside them.

Messages should be no longer than 25 words (140 characters).

Year R,1 and 2: Write your own birthday message to Queen Elizabeth II.

Years 3/4: Write your own birthday message to the queen and complete a timeline of five significant events that have taken place during her reign.

Year 5/6: Write your own birthday message to the queen and complete a timeline of ten significant events that have taken place during her reign.

Year 6: SATs revision

Lunchtimes After school

Mondays Photography - until 4.30pm (ML)

Tuesdays Board games (HR)

Wednesdays Origami (ML)

Singing (ML)

Colouring (HR)

Ball skills (HR)

Expressive dance - until 4pm (HR)

Dance club - until 4.30pm (ML)

Thursdays Homework - until 4pm (ML)

Fridays Digital leaders (ML)

Year R, 1 and 2

Reading: daily and record in diary

Spellings: practise words on the back of diary

Years 3-6:

Reading: daily and record in diary

Maths: practising your times tables

Spellings: learn set words and write them into a sentence (tested on Friday)

Parent event

Next week is our Nebula reading week and we are holding parent events on

Tuesday 15th March 9-10am at Mill Lane and Wednesday 16th March, 9-10.30am at Holt Road.

We look forward to seeing any parents or grandparents who are able to come and work alongside their child/

grandchild.

Y5/6 Harry Potter film club! Our Harry Potter film marathon will be continuing on Tuesday 15th March up until 5pm. Please make sure your teacher knows you are staying and how you are

getting home.

Free entry! Bring your own snacks!

CAN YOU HELPA?

Do you have any old board games or children’s games you no longer use? If so we are looking for donations

for our haven lunchtime club.

Thank you in advance.

Staff Information:

Congratulations to Miss Gilbert, who is expecting her first baby later this year. She will continue to work

with VHC Apples class until the end of July.

You’ll also be pleased to know that Mrs George’s operation went well, however she requires further treatment, so Mrs Drissi will be continuing with us

until May half term.

DONATIONS NEEDED

Year 2 Minibeast Hotel

Year 2 are hoping to make a mini beast hotel before the end of term.

Please can you help with donations of straw, bamboo, small flower pots, bricks with holes, tiles, stones, bark, wooden pallets or small planks of wood and anything

else you think mini beasts may like to live in.

Easter Fayre

Friday 18th March 2:15pm -3:45pm

@ Mill Lane Site

Games, Raffle, Chocolate tombola,

And more ........

EASTER FAYRE

Friday 18th March

2.15-3.45pm

At Mill Lane

Parents welcome!

Horsford All Saints Church

Easter Bingo Night

Friday 18th March

6.30pm for 7pm start

Church Rooms, Holt Road

Please bring your own refreshments!

* Raffle *

Please can we remind you to return your raffle tickets to the office as soon as possible.

Please make sure you have read the attached letter which was sent out this week which explains how the Fayre will run.

All Holt Road children will need to be collected from Mill Lane on that day.

Can you help by donating any:

* Easter eggs,

* filled jam jars

(with anything that would make a good gift)

* cakes/buns

(cakes brought in on the day please).

Enter our two Easter egg competitions to win a prize

- collect an entry sheet from the office!

Executive Head: Ashley Best-White

Executive Deputy Head: Kirsty Anatola

Mill Lane Site, Horsford, Norwich, Norfolk, NR10 3ES

Tel: 01603

897938

Head of School: Tanya Kirton

Holt Road Site, Horsford, Norwich NR10 3DN

Tel: 01603 898348

Head of School: Tracy Anderson

8st March, 2016.

Dear Parents/Carers,

Easter Fayre: Friday 18th March – 2.15-3.45pm at our Mill Lane site

Our annual Easter Fayre will be taking place in a few weeks’ time, so we thought we would

write to let you know more details about the event.

The children from Holt Road will be walking up to Mill Lane with their teachers at 2.15pm.

They should arrive around 2.30pm. We would welcome any parents who are able to help walk

with the children.

Once they arrive, the Holt Road children will be taken to the lower school classrooms at

Mill Lane where they can be collected by their parent ready to go round the fayre. Parents

who are not able to walk up with their child should enter school through the main entrance

where a member of staff will direct you to the classrooms. Bags and coats can be left in

the classrooms while you look round the fayre and collected at the end of the day.

If parents of children at Holt Road are not able to join us for the fayre then their child

will stay in the classrooms with their teacher taking part in Easter activities. Mill Lane

children will be able to visit round the fayre with or without their parent.

Each class will be designing and running a game. We ask the children for volunteers to run

the games throughout the afternoon, usually in 15 minute slots. Please could you let your

child’s class teacher know if your child is able to stay until 3.45pm to help run the game, so

they can arrange a list of class volunteers for each time slot.

We will ring a bell at 3.05pm and again at 3.20pm to let parents and children know when the

end of the school day is for both sites.

Can we remind you that the expectation is that Holt Road children stay on site until 3.05pm

and Mill Lane children until 3.20pm. If you have children across both sites please bear this

in mind when you are making your arrangements for collecting them.

All Holt Road children will need to be collected from Mill Lane on this day. Please come

through the main entrance and you will be directed to the classrooms to collect your child.

Please can you complete the attached slip and return to the school office by Friday 11th

March.

Yours sincerely,

Miss Anatola, Mrs Kirton, Miss Anderson

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...

I will be attending the fayre at Mill Lane. Please complete below.

I will arrive at _________pm

I will not be attending the fayre. Please complete below and delete as appropriate.

I will be collecting my child from Mill Lane at: ___________pm

My child will be going home with: _______________________________

My child can stay until 3.45pm to help run a class game.